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Get an iPad, Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet over the holidays? You’re not alone: Tablet and e-reader ownership increased by nearly double over the holidays, and more than 1 out of every 4 Americans now has one of the devices, according to a new study.

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While iPhone users have had quick access to Airbnb?s convenient room booking service for a while now, Android users can finally get in on the fun now that the Airbnb app has come to the Android Market.

Airbnb is a free app that serves as a hub for people to find and list their own homes for other strangers to stay in. The launch of the Android app brings with it some new features to the Airbnb model, including the ability for the guest and the owner to instant message quickly back and forth with one another should any problems arise. If you?re looking for something a little different in travel accommodations, Airbnb is a pretty cool place to start.

But there are plenty of other app options for Android users if they?re not sold on the Airbnb experience, too. On the opposite side of the spectrum from Airbnb, there is the more conventional Orbitz (free). With Orbitz you can book flights, hotels and rental cars in just a few quick taps. The Android app also includes a feature called Orbitz Mobile Steals that offers additional mobile-only discounts on room rentals.

If you find you?d like to look at vacation rentals while also keeping an eye on the apartment rental market, HotPads Rentals & Real Estate (free) does a good job providing a little bit of everything under the sun. The app offers listings based on location with listings shown either in list or map form. Potential renters can see detailed pictures, floor plans and price comparisons.

Those that want to keep their eye firmly focused on the vacation end of things can check out the free HomeAway app. HomeAway offers vacation rentals with full kitchens and all the convenience of an actual home while you?re still on vacation. The app boasts over 260,000 properties and you can use the app?s calendar to search by date of availability or by assorted other rental criteria like number of rooms and price.

For the serious comparison shopper, there?s RENTalo Vacation Lodgings (free). RENTalo lets users compare prices on various hotel and vacation rental deals. The app has photos and information on each of its listing and helps ensure that users aren?t being up-charged by one website over another when they go to book their stay.

Whichever app you eventually end up choosing, it seems like a safe bet that you should be able to find a reasonable and comfortable place to stay. Just remember not to bring your phone into the hotel pool with you.

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BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) ? Libya’s ramshackle government lost control of a former stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday after local people staged an armed uprising, posing the gravest challenge yet to the country’s new rulers.

Elders in Bani Walid, where militias loyal to the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) were driven out in a gunbattle a day earlier, said they were appointing their own local government and rejected any interference from the authorities in the capital Tripoli.

The town’s revolt will heighten doubts in the West about the NTC government’s ability to instill law and order crucial to rebuilding oil exports, to disarm tribal militias and guard Libyan borders in a region where al Qaeda is active.

Local elders denied reports that they were loyal to Gaddafi, who was captured and killed in October after weeks on the run, and Reuters reporters in Bani Walid saw no signs of the Gaddafi-era green flags which witnesses earlier said had been hoisted over the town.

But the collapse of NTC authority in the town, one of the most die-hard bastions of pro-Gaddafi sentiment during Libya’s nine-month civil war last year, will compound the problems besetting a government that in the past week has been staggering from one crisis to another.

The uprising in Bani Walid could not come at a worse time for the National Transitional Council government. In the past week its chief has had his office overrun by protesters angry at the slow pace of reform and the second most senior official has quit, citing what he described as an “atmosphere of hatred.”

Reuters reporters who entered Bani Walid on Tuesday morning saw a few of the black, green and red flags of last year’s anti-Gaddafi rebellion but there was no sign of any central government presence.

About 200 elders who gathered in a mosque decided to abolish an NTC-appointed military council for the town and appoint their own local council, in direct defiance of the authority of the government in Tripoli.

“If (NTC chief Mustafa) Abdel Jalil is going to force anyone on us, we won’t accept that by any means,” one of the elders, Ali Zargoun, told Reuters at the mosque.

“BROTHERS IN REVOLUTION”

Accounts from Bani Walid, a town about 200 km (120 miles) from Tripoli, late on Monday described armed Gaddafi supporters attacking the barracks of the pro-government militia in the town and then forcing them to retreat.

A fighter with the routed pro-government militia told Reuters the loyalists were flying “brand new green flags” from the centre of town. The flags were symbols of Gaddafi’s maverick, 42-year dictatorship.

But elders on Tuesday disputed that account.

“In the Libyan revolution, we have all become brothers. We will not be an obstacle to progress,” said another elder, Miftah Jubarra. “Regarding allegations of pro-Gaddafi elements in Bani Walid, this is not true. This is the media. You will go around the city and find no green flags or pictures of Gaddafi.”

Bani Walid, base of the powerful Warfallah tribe, was one of the last towns to surrender to the anti-Gaddafi rebellion last year.

A Libyan air official said war planes were being mobilized to fly to Bani Walid. But it was not immediately clear what the government in Tripoli could do. It has yet to demonstrate that it has an effective fighting force under its command and Bani Walid, protected behind a deep valley, is difficult to attack.

EMBATTLED GOVERNMENT

During Libya’s nine-month war, anti-Gaddafi NTC rebels tried to take Bani Walid but did not progress much beyond the outskirts of the town. It later emerged that Saif al-Islam, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons who was captured in the Sahara desert in November, had been using Bani Walid as a base.

Soon before the end of the conflict, with Gaddafi’s defeat unavoidable, local tribal elders negotiated an agreement under which forces loyal to the NTC were able to enter the town without a fight.

Relations have been uneasy since then and there have been occasional flare-ups of violence.

A local resident, who did not want to be identified, said Monday’s violence began when members of the May 28 militia, affiliated to the NTC, arrested some former Gaddafi loyalists. That prompted other supporters of the former leader to attack the militia’s garrison. “They massacred men at the doors of the militia headquarters,” said the resident.

FRAGILE GRIP ON POWER

The NTC still has the backing of the NATO powers who, with their diplomatic pressure and bombing campaign, helped push out Gaddafi and install the new government.

NTC authorities pledged to unify the tribally-divided country, reconstruct its once mighty oil industry that made Libya a major exporter in OPEC, and hold democratic elections.

But questions are now being raised inside some Western governments about the NTC’s ability to govern Libya effectively and secure its frontiers against al Qaeda, arms traffickers and illegal migrants trying to get into Europe.

The NTC tumbled into its worst crisis since the end of the civil war at the weekend when a crowd of protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi stormed the council’s local headquarters when NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil was inside.

The protesters, who supported the revolt against Gaddafi, were angry that more progress had not been made to restore basic public services. They also said many of the NTC’s members were tarnished by having served in Gaddafi’s administration.

Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, deputy head of the NTC and target of some of the protests, said he was resigning. Abdel Jalil warned that the protests could drag the country into a “bottomless pit.”

(Additional reporting by Ali Shuaib; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Samia Nakhoul)

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SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. ? A March trial has been scheduled in a child support lawsuit against an American woman who sent her adopted son back to Russia alone on a plane with a note saying she didn’t want to be his mother anymore.

The adoptive mother, Torry Hansen, is being sued by her adoption agency, World Association for Children and Parents, for child support. Hansen was living in Shelbyville in April 2010 when she sent the boy, then 7, back to Moscow with a note stating he had psychological problems.

Trial is scheduled March 27 in Shelbyville’s circuit court, Judge F. Lee Russell’s office said.

Hansen has not been criminally charged. The incident drew international attention and prompted new adoption agreements between the U.S. and Russia.

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TORONTO (AP) ? BlackBerry maker Research in Motion’co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, announced Sunday they are stepping down from the once-iconic company that has struggled to compete in recent years.

The pair who founded RIM will be replaced by Thorsten Heins, a chief operating officer who joined RIM four years ago from Siemens AG, RIM said.

Balsillie and Lazaridis have headed Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM together for the past two decades.

“There comes a time in the growth of every successful company when the founders recognize the need to pass the baton to new leadership. Jim and I went to the board and told them that we thought that time was now,” Lazaridis said in a statement.

The Canadian company has suffered a series of setbacks and has lost tens of billions in market value. A company that was worth more than $70 billion a few years ago now has a market value of $8.9 billion.

RIM said last month that new phones deemed critical to the company’s future will be delayed until late 2012. And its PlayBook tablet, RIM’s answer to the Apple iPad, failed to gain consumer support, forcing the company to give it deep discounts to move the devices off store shelves.

A widespread outage also frustrated tens of millions of BlackBerry users in October.

Lazaridis will take on a new role as vice chairman of RIM’s board and chairman of the board’s new innovation committee. Balsillie remains a member of the board.

“I agree this is the right time to pass the baton to new leadership, and I have complete confidence in Thorsten, the management team and the company,” Balsillie said in the statement. “I remain a significant shareholder and a director and, of course, they will have my full support.”

Associated Press

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Is your NES controller in another castle? Maybe you’re just pining for your smartphone’s capacitive game controls for some reason. Regardless, here’s a little piece of tech that just might put the fire in your flower: the capacitive touch NES controller. This sucker is milled from a copper board using a device called the MezzoMill, which — besides making turtle-stomping peripherals — also can be used to produce guitar effect pads, virtual keyboards, bicycle rim lights and all sorts of circuits that might tickle your fancy. Unfortunately, the creator isn’t as well-funded as this inkjet-based control circuit project so he’s trying to raise money through Kickstarter to make the mill in a large enough run to lower costs. Given how Kickstarter generated nearly $100 million in funding last year, maybe he’s got a fighting chance. See the buttonless controller work its capacitive magic after the break.

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COMMENTARY | According to Jon Stewart’s Super Pac (founded by Stephen Colbert) South Carolina’s Republicans, who go to the polls Saturday, should vote for Herman Cain.

Reasons? South Carolina doesn’t allow for write-in candidates and Stephen Colbert, who according to the Laughing Squid is exploring the possibility of running for president of the United States of South Carolina missed the ballot deadline. Herman Cain (and Texas Gov. Rick Perry who dropped out of the race on Thursday) will, however, appear on the ballot, despite having suspended their campaigns.

I propose four more reasons that South Carolina Republicans should nominate Cain: Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich/

Santorum doesn’t get that the purpose of freedom in no way empowers his theocratic notion that everyone is free, in America, as long as they adopt his personal version of biblical morality. If you’re a straight, middle-class, white, Christian male, then perhaps Santorum is your guy. To everyone else, he’s the devil.

Rep. Paul is only marginally better. His strict constructionist point of view on the Constitution gives no sanctuary to the fact that we ratified that document when it took two months to cross the Atlantic, when no one had ever heard of police actions, because they didn’t exist yet. Interpretation of the Constitution has to happen through an examination of intent, rather than through a legalistic approach of examining words on a page. Elect Rep. Paul, and you have just notified the world’s despots that they are free to start attacking their neighbors.

Romney says, “Corporations are people too, my friend.” Seriously, Republicans? Why are you still even looking at this guy? He’s completely out of touch. Bain Capital was a good place for him because he’s the bane of your party.

Gingrich got into this race with a simple strategy — let all of the others punch each other out, and then swoop in and steal the nomination from a man (Romney) that evangelical Christians wouldn’t support in a race against three Muslims and a Jew. Gingrich for president? Sure, if you thought King Ralph should have kept his throne! You may as well elect Snooki.

Republicans, I’m sorry, but you should sit this one out. Are any of these guys really the guy you want to risk saddling yourselves with for eight years? This is about the future of your party. Vote Herman Cain in South Carolina!

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A Second Take on Meeting the Press: From an up-close look at Rachel Maddow’s sneakers to an in-depth look at Jon Krakauer’s latest book ? it’s all fair game in our “Meet the Press: Take Two” web extra. Log on Sundays to see David Gregory’s post-show conversations with leading newsmakers, authors and roundtable guests. Videos are available on-demand by 12 p.m. ET on Sundays.

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